and wistful.

"Won't you--won't you give me the promise I want, Jane?" he asked
eagerly. She placed her hand upon his and shook her head.

"Won't you be good to me, Graydon? Don't make it so hard for me.
Please, please don't tell me again that you love me."






CHAPTER XXIX

THE WRECKAGE





The spring floods delayed the Eastern Express, bringing the party
to Chicago nearly a day late. The Cables and the Harbins went
at once to the Annex, where David Cable had taken rooms. They had
given up their North Side home some months before, both he and his
wife retiring into the seclusion that a great hotel can afford when
necessary.

Graydon hurried off to his father's office, eager, yet half fearing
to meet the man who was responsible for the broken link in his